Eason Chan Yik-shun was born in Hong Kong on 27 July 1974, with family roots in Dongguan, Guangdong, and studied in Britain, where he took up architecture. In 1995, home for the summer, he won the 14th New Talent Singing Awards with the song Looking at the Moon, signed with Capital Artists and released his debut Cantonese album, Eason Chan, in 1996. From 1997 albums such as Always with Me and My Happy Times brought him wide attention, and early landmarks include K Song King (2000), Next Year Today (2002, with the Mandarin version Ten Years), Exaggerated (2005) and Under Mount Fuji (2006), all showing his precise, emotionally detailed delivery. He and his contemporaries Miriam Yeung and Edmond Leung, all from Capital Artists, were called the 'Capital Artists Three Treasures', and his 2005 album U87 is regarded as one of his best. In 2003 he won the Golden Melody Award for Best Mandarin Male Singer and Album of the Year for Special Thanks To...; he took Album of the Year again in 2009 for Don't Want to Let Go, and Best Mandarin Male Singer twice more, in 2015 and 2018. He has staged more than 300 concerts through several world tours since 1999, and in 2010 became the first Asian artist to play a concert at London's O2 Arena. He has also appeared in more than fifty films. A multiple winner of the top male-singer awards at the RTHK Top Ten Chinese Gold Songs Awards, he is known for his live singing, and he married Hilary Tsui in 2006. In his Capital Artists years albums such as Always with Me and My Happy Times already showed his ability to move between styles, and after changing labels he won the Commercial Radio male-singer gold award year after year. His 2005 album U87 was widely chosen as one of the year's best, and he took the Golden Melody Award for Album of the Year again in 2009 for Don't Want to Let Go. Beyond more than fifty films, he has taken leading roles in dramas and comedies and worked with a wide range of producers, while his Cantonese albums such as The Key kept his recording career alive into the 2010s, and his 2016 Mandarin album C'mon in~ won him another Golden Melody Award.
Since debuting in 1995, Eason Chan became the defining Cantopop voice of the 2000s through songs such as K Song King and Exaggerated. He won the Golden Melody Award for Best Mandarin Male Singer three times, carrying Cantonese pop to a wider Chinese-speaking audience. In 2010 he became the first Asian artist to perform at London's O2 Arena. His live singing has shaped how a generation of listeners hears pop music.
Achievements
- 1995 · Won the 14th New Talent Singing Awards
- 2003 · Won the Golden Melody Award for Best Mandarin Male Singer for Special Thanks To...
- 2010 · Became the first Asian artist to stage a concert at London's O2 Arena